"[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse."

-- Calvin Coolidge

#Attitude Quotes #Men Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.”
“One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.257, Random House
“Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.”
“Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
“I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's... Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven.”
“I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedomâ€”one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.144, Faber & Faber
“A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.”
“The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.”

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